The Gautby Road Play and Community Centre Joint Management Committee

Analysis

The Gautby Road Play and Community Centre Joint Management Committee is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birkenhead. It was registered in February 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Gautby Road Play and Community Centre Joint Management Committee reported income of £271k and spending of £284k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £372k to £271k (-27%), an average of -7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Gautby Road Play and Community Centre Joint Management Committee sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Life (£271k), Winchester Round Table Charitable Trust Fund (£271k) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Charitable Fund (£271k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.